Improved washing-fluid



UNITED STATES PATENT OFF CE.

DANFORTH JOHNSON, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

IMPROVED WASHING-FLUID.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 45,613, dated December 27, 1864.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, DANFORTH JOHNSON, of the city of Chicago, county of Cook, and State of Illinois, have invented or produced a new and original Composition in Washing-Fluid; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full and exact description of the same.

In order to show others how to make and use the same, I will describe it.

Take a quantity of wood-ashes, put them in an iron kettle, fill the kettle nearly full of water, put them over a fire, and let them boil till you get the strength of theashes. Then to four quarts of water add, while hot, one ounce of borax, let it stand and get cool, and settle. If the solution is strong, add one pint t0 twopails of hot water, put your clothes to soak, rub them out, and boil them in the same kind of DANFORTH JOHNSON.

Witnesses:

T. '1. PROSSER, P. A. HOYNE. 

